HOUSTON (AP) — Nearly one million homes and business remained without power Friday from Texas to Louisiana after fierce thunderstorms swept hurricane-force winds through Houston, blowing windows out of downtown skyscrapers and toppling...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Trinidad and Tobago has sought to reassure Guyanese exporters that their products would be welcomed into the twin island republic once they undergo a “risk analysis” before their products are allowed to land in the CARICOM country...
WASHINGTON (AP): The Pentagon said Thursday that humanitarian aid will soon begin flowing onto the Gaza shore through the new pier that was anchored to the beach overnight and will begin reaching those in need almost immediately. Sabrina Singh,...
WASHINGTON (AP): The Justice Department on Thursday formally moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift in generations of US drug policy. A proposed rule sent to the federal register recognises the medical uses of...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The government of South Sudan and rebel opposition groups on Thursday signed a “commitment declaration” for peace during high-level mediation talks in Kenya, described as key step in efforts to end the conflict in South Sudan...
WASHINGTON (AP): The Biden administration is creating a new process aimed at cutting the time it takes to decide the fates of newly arrived migrants in immigration courts from years to roughly six months at a time when immigration is increasingly a...
ST GEORGE’S (CMC): The officer in charge of operations and crimes in Grenada, Superintendent Esau Pierre, says the police believe that the motive for the recent increase in gun-related killing is drug-related. “Our intelligence suggests that these...
The arrests of five Americans in the Turks and Caicos Islands on charges they illegally carried ammunition during recent trips have prompted pleas for mercy from the governors of Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Virginia. The Americans are...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations reported improved prospects for the world economy since its January forecast on Thursday, pointing to a better outlook in the United States and several large emerging economies including Brazil, India...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Thursday formally moved to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift in generations of United States drug policy. A proposed rule sent to the federal register...
BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovak authorities charged a man Thursday with attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Robert Fico, saying he acted alone in a politically motivated attack that left the longtime leader in serious...
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Child migration through Panama's dangerous Darien Gap is up 40% so far this year, according to a report released Wednesday by the United Nations children's agency. UNICEF said an estimated 30,000...
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization on Wednesday authorised a second dengue vaccine, a move that could provide protection for millions worldwide against the mosquito-borne disease that has already sparked numerous outbreaks across the...
PARIS (AP): A massive search was under way in France on Wednesday for armed assailants who ambushed a prison convoy, killing two prison officers, seriously injuring three others and freeing the inmate they were escorting. The prime minister vowed...
OCALA, Florida (AP): Mexico’s consulate in central Florida was working Wednesday to support a community of farmworkers after a highway collision killed eight Mexican citizens and injured 40 other people who were on their way to pick watermelons. A...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Wednesday agreed to hold two campaign debates – the first on June 27 hosted by CNN and the second on September 10 hosted by ABC – setting the stage for the first presidential...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Wednesday agreed to hold two campaign debates, the first on June 27 hosted by CNN and the second on September 10 hosted by ABC, setting the stage for their first...
BENGALURU, India (AP) — Sizzling heat across Asia and the Middle East in late April that echoed last year's destructive swelter was made 45 times more likely in some parts of the continent because of human-caused climate change...
PORT-AU-PRINCE(CMC): Haiti on Monday began the search for a new prime minister, in keeping with the agreement reached on April 3 this year allowing for the establishment of the Presidential Transitional Council (CPT) that is tasked with ending the...
AP: More than half a million Palestinians have been displaced in recent days by escalating Israeli military operations in southern and northern Gaza, the United Nations says. Around 450,000 Palestinians were driven out of Rafah in Gaza’s south over...
TORONTO (AP): Canada’s most populous province announced on Tuesday it will suspend driver’s licences for at least 10 years for those who have been convicted of stealing a car. Ontario Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria said those convicted...
OCALA, Florida (AP) — The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) has arrested the driver of a pickup truck that crashed into a farmworker bus early Tuesday, killing eight, on charges of driving under the influence-manslaughter. Bryan Maclean Howard,...
Eight TikTok content creators sued the United States government on Tuesday, issuing another challenge to the new federal law that would ban the popular social media platform nationwide if its China-based parent company doesn't sell its stakes...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Labour unions in Nigeria staged nationwide protests on Monday over recent increases in electricity prices following the removal of subsidies by the West African nation's government. The unions made up of government...
OCALA, Fla. (AP) — A bus carrying farmworkers in central Florida overturned on Tuesday, killing eight people and injuring about 40 other passengers, authorities said. The bus was transporting 53 farmworkers at about 6:40 a.m. when it collided...
